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DMPD: Man choked and stabbed woman before lighting motel room on fire Share Updated: 8:29 AM CST Feb 25, 2021
DMPD: Man choked and stabbed woman before lighting motel room on fire Share Updated: 8:29 AM CST Feb 25, 2021
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Show Transcript TOWARD THE EAST. BREAKING NEWS OVERNIGHT, DES MOINES POLICE HAVE NOW ARRESTED A MAN FOR A STABBING AND FIRE ON THIS STARTED AT THE HAWKEYE MOTEL LAST NIGHT. HERE S WHAT HAPPENED. OFFICERS SAY JAMES CASON AND THE VICTIM WERE REPORTEDLY SMOKING METH. C SAMBINGS ON ALLEGEDLY STABBED AND CHOKED THE VICTIM BEFORE LIGHTING THE ROOM ON FIRE. THEN HE LEFT THE MOTEL. POLICE TELL US HE RETURNED LATER AND THEN THEY TOOK HIM INTO CUSTODY. HE S NOW CHARGED WITH ARSON, DOMESTIC ABUSE AND WILLFUL INJURY. WE L
By Madeleine McCormick/Dave Bohl
Feb 25, 2021
(Des Moines, IA) A man is in the Polk County jail after police say he stabbed a woman and lit a southeast Des Moines hotel room on fire while high on meth.
Police say officers were called to the Hawkeye Motel late Wednesday night and found a woman with stab wounds in the parking lot and the hotel room on fire. The woman told police she was smoking meth with 54-year-old James Cason when he started stabbing her, then lit the hotel room on fire and left.
Cason later returned to the scene, where officers took him into custody. He s now facing charges of willful injury causing serious injury, domestic assault, and first-degree arson.